Reports

The 21st century has seen a significant rise in global health threats. Epidemics and pandemics are now a constant danger rather than rare events. The 2024 GPMB report, The changing face of pandemic risk, is a call to action for global leaders, policy-makers, health professionals, and communities to build a safer, more resilient future. It outlines the key drivers of pandemic risk and provides a roadmap for strengthening our defences.

The GPMB 2023 Report, ‘A Fragile State of Preparedness’, which is based for the first time on an analysis using the GPMB Monitoring Framework, finds that global preparedness for pandemics and other disease outbreaks remains inadequate. There have been some areas of progress since COVID-19 but this progress remains fragile, and some areas have declined, highlighting an urgent need for political commitment and increased resources. The Board makes four key recommendations to urgently strengthen global preparedness.

‘From Worlds Apart to a World Prepared’: How the failures of the COVID-19 pandemic were rooted in inequality and inaction, and how we can create a safer world.

‘A World in Disorder’: How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a collective failure to take pandemic preparedness seriously.

‘A World at Risk’: Seven urgent priority actions leaders must take to prepare for health emergencies.